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Sunday November 08 2026
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Installing and running Exponential 6.0: the book Updated
This book takes you from an empty server to a production Exponential 6.0 site. It covers checking the requirements, getting the code, choosing and running an installer, serving the site, choosing a database, and keeping…
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4. Choosing an install method New
Exponential 6.0 can be installed in three ways that all end in the same kind of installation: the setup wizard in a browser, the kickstarter on the command line driven by a kickstart.ini file, and the one-command console…
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Installing by hand, without an installer New
Added for Exponential 6.0.15. The setup wizard, the kickstarter and ./console exp:install do every step of an installation for you ( chapter 4 ). This page does the same steps by hand: for administrators who must control…
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Siteaccesses: how a request finds its site New
Added for Exponential 6.0.15. One Exponential installation can serve several sites: a public website, the administration, the editor, a second website in another language or with another design. Each of them is a siteacc…
Saturday November 07 2026
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Exponential 6.0.x Updated Markdown page
Exponential 6.0.x specifically requires the php package manager called Composer to be installed and run the command composer install; run before Exponential can be used.
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Configuring Exponential 6.0 Updated Markdown page
This guide configures an Exponential 6.0 installation once it is installed: where settings live and which file wins, the siteaccesses and their addresses, languages, the database, mail, caches, file storage and…
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Exponential 6.0.15 Updated Markdown page
Not released yet. The 6.0.15 line follows v6.0.14 (2026-06-07); no tag v6.0.15 existed on 2026-10-12. This page lists what the line contains on that date.
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Per-site settings inside extensions (multi-site hosting) Updated Markdown page
This page is for administrators and developers who host several sites from one Exponential installation, each site in its own extension. Since January 2026 an extension that holds a site can carry override settings that…
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The settings page: see where every INI value comes from, and change one safely Updated Markdown page
This guide is for administrators who look up or change an INI setting in the administration interface instead of a text editor. It follows the page Setup > Ini settings (settings/view) and the form it leads to…
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Installing, then and now: the files, the database, the virtual host Updated Markdown page
What the Learning book's first chapter had you do by hand (unpack, create a database, write a virtual host, set up images and cron, read the ini files), and what each step is in Exponential 6.
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Extensions sevenx_multisite activates Updated Markdown page
The 60 extensions the sevenx_multisite installer writes into ActiveExtensions, in their order and why the order matters, the administration-only access extensions, and how the installer creates the extensions' database…
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Understanding siteaccesses and settings Updated Markdown page
An explanation for learners of siteaccesses (site, admin, editor and others) and INI settings - what a siteaccess is, the settings files and their .ini.append.php overrides, the order in which scopes win, how to ask the…
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10. After installing: the operations handbook Updated Markdown page
The installer leaves you with a site that answers its first request. This chapter turns it into a site you can run: securing the administrator account, getting the site addresses right, scheduling the cronjobs that…
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Managing wish lists Updated
When the site has a shop, signed-in visitors can keep products on a wish list for later, beside the shopping basket. The site designs of Exponential 6.0.15 offer it: on the Fit & Healthy demo design, every product page h…
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Previewing on the website Updated
Before you publish, you can see your draft as visitors will see it, and check how the page lays out on a phone, a tablet and a desktop. On the site, both are buttons of the website sidebar's Page panel. Previewing change…
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The shop: orders Updated
When the site sells products, its orders are seen in two places: customers see their own orders on the site, and the shop's staff handle all orders in the administration's Store tab (called Webshop in older versions). Cu…
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Accounts of site members Updated
Members are the people with an account on the public site: they register, sign in to read members-only pages, write comments or take part in forums. This page is for the editors and administrators who look after these ac…
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Drafts and versions on the website Updated
A draft is a version of a page that has been saved but not published. Visitors never see drafts; the person who made a draft can finish and publish it, or throw it away. Every published change is kept as a version , so a…
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Managing email notifications Updated
Notifications mail you when content you follow changes: a news folder, a forum topic, a part of the site you look after. You choose what you follow and how often the mail comes, on the site or in the administration; both…
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Translating from the website Updated
A site can show its content in several languages; each siteaccess shows the languages of its language list, the first one first. A translation is another language version of the same page. On the public site, the website…